THE STORY OF ANNE FRANK (ENGLISH PODCAST)

Anne Frank was a German Jewish girl who became a victim of the Nazi
genocide at the age of 15. In 1934, after Hitler had seized power,
she fled Germany with her family to Holland and after the German
troops invaded she went into hiding in a concealed house in
Amsterdam. This is where she began the diary that to this day
serves as a historic document of the time. On the 4th August 1944
the hiding place was given away: the whole family was arrested and
a month later deported to Auschwitz. In March 1945 Anne Frank died
of typhus in Bergen-Belsen. For the composer it was a mammoth task
to come to drips with the life of Anne Frank. He has two daughters
of the same age and his father was born the same year as Anne
Frank. It’s important that we never forget how politics and race
hate infiltrated the life of an innocent girl. In an era in which
in some quarters the very existence of camps of mass destruction
are denied, the old idols are worshipped and racism is on the rise
again, there can never be too many commemorative works. Anne Frank
was a girl just like any other in her time, with all the worries,
fears, dreams and wishes. She had to perish, because she belonged
to another race and didn’t fit into the system.